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Den tyske filosof Byung-Chul Han hudfletter i ny bog den samfundsorden, han kalder transparenssamfundet. Nutidens avancerede teknologi skaber en illusion om grænseløse mængder af information og fuldkommen oplysning, og begrebet transparens er blevet et fr
Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corpo
Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault's biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. I
An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Ga
Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault's biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. I
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression
Kaum ein anderes Schlagwort beherrscht heute den öffentlichen Diskurs so sehr wie die Transparenz. Sie wird vor allem im Zusammenhang mit der Informationsfreiheit emphatisch beschworen. Wer aber die Transparenz allein auf moralischer Ebene thematisiert un
Derzeit vollzieht sich unbemerkt ein Paradigmenwechsel. Die Gesellschaft der Negativität weicht einer Gesellschaft, die von einem Übermaß an Positivität beherrscht ist. Ausgehend von diesem Paradigmenwechsel zeichnet Han die pathologische Landschaft der h
Transparency is the order of the day. It is a term, a slogan, that dominates public discourse about corruption and freedom of information. Considered crucial to democracy, it touches our political and economic lives as well as our private lives. Anyone ca
Shanzhai, so heißt der chinesische Neologismus für Fakes. Es existieren nun auch Ausdrücke wie Shanzhaiismus, Shanzhai-Kultur oder Shanzhai-Geist. Shanzhai erfasst in China inzwischen alle Lebensbereiche. Es gibt Shanzhai-Bücher, einen Shanzhai-Nobelpreis
Power is a pervasive phenomenon yet there is little consensus on what it is and how it should be understood. In this book the cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han develops a fresh and original perspective on the nature of power, shedding new light on this key
What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupting the social organism. These tumours endlessly metastasize and grow with an inexplicable, deadly vitality. At a certain point this growth is no longer prod
Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred not on essence but on absence. The fundamental topos of Far Eastern th
Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions even the pain of love is treated as suspect. This algophobia extends into society: less and less space is given to conf
We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. The terrestrial order is giving way to a digital order, the world of things is being replaced by a world of non-things a constantly expanding info
The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupting many spheres of social life, including politics. Election campaigns are now being waged as information wars
A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human civilization are conjured up with ever greater urgency. Anxiously,
The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything
Erzählungen bringen das Bindende, das Verbindende und das Verbindliche hervor. Dadurch stiften sie Gemeinschaft und beseitigen Kontingenz. Doch gerade da, wo alles wie heute so beliebig und zufällig geworden ist, das heißt mitten im Kontingenzsturm der In
Heute herrscht überall eine Algophobie, eine generalisierte Angst vor Schmerzen. Jeder schmerzhafte Zustand wird vermieden. Verdächtig sind auch Liebesschmerzen. Die Schmerztoleranz sinkt rapide. Die Algophobie hat eine Daueranästhesierung zur Folge. Wie
A prominent German thinker argues thatcontrary to Twitter Revolution cheerleadingdigital communication is destroying political discourse and political action. The shitstorm represents an authentic phenomenon of digital communication. from In the Swarm Dig
Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologies engendered by it. We are individuals afloat in an ato
Zen Buddhism is a form of Mahyna Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual thought, which explains why Zen Buddhist sayings are so enigmatic a
I sværmen. Tanker om det digitale er en kulturkritisk, antropologisk tekstsamling om det digitale medium, disintegration af fællesskaber og politisk lammelse. Den tyske filosof Byung-Chul Han tegner stridslystent et panorama over det digitaliserede livs s
The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it. The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his s
In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperati
A philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing varietyinfotainment, edutainment, servotainmentand traces the notion through Kant, Zen Buddhism, Heidegger, Kafka, and Rauschenberg. In Good Entertainment , Byung-Chul Han examines the notion of
"Ein Land, wo einer, der 'ich' sagt, schleunig in die Erde versinkt. (Elias Canetti) Im Westen war das Fremde lange Zeit Gegenstand gewaltsamer Aus¬schließung oder Vereinnahmung. Es war nicht präsent im Inneren des Eige¬nen. Und heute? Gibt e
Tracing the thread of decreation in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original. Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means fake, originally coined to describe knock-off cell phone
In the wake of globalization, cultural forms of expression have become increasingly detached from their places of origin, circulating in a hyper-domain of culture where there is no real difference anymore between indigenous and foreign, near and far, the
In our busy and hurried lives, we are losing the ability to be inactive. Human existence becomes fully absorbed by activity even leisure, treated as a respite from work, becomes part of the same logic. Intense life today means first of all more performan
Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling becomes storyselling and narrati
One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity. Some things never disappear-violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varyi
MINIMA MORALIA DER INFORMATIONSGESELLSCHAFT 'Informationen allein erhellen die Welt nicht. Sie können sie sogar verdunkeln. Ab einem bestimmten Punkt sind Informationen nicht informativ, sondern deformativ. Dieser kritische Punkt ist längst überschrit
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EIN INSPIRIERENDER GEGENENTWURF ZU HANNAH ARENDTS VITA ACTIVA ODER VOM TÄTIGEN LEBEN Die Untätigkeit, so Byung-Chul Han, macht das Humanum aus. Sie ist das Ferment der Kultur. Wo allein das Schema von Reiz und Reaktion, von Bedürfnis und Befriedigung, von
Der international als »neuer Star der deutschen Philosophie« gehandelte Byung-Chul Han legt nach seinem Bestseller »Psychopolitik« sein neues Buch über Gesellschaft, Wahrnehmung und Kommunikation heute vor: Die Zeit, in der es den Anderen gab, ist vorbei.
In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperati
The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything
Zen Buddhism is a form of Mahyna Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual thought, which explains why Zen Buddhist sayings are so enigmatic a
In our busy and hurried lives, we are losing the ability to be inactive. Human existence becomes fully absorbed by activity even leisure, treated as a respite from work, becomes part of the same logic. Intense life today means first of all more performan
Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling becomes storyselling and narrati